-w .h - 4 -XI IL A I w Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, June 20, 1970 Saturday, June 20, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Regional sewage plan may pollute Erie HILL THR By HARVARD VAI.LANCE Ann Arbor's sewage treatment facili- ties may soon be replaced by a regional treatment facility that state represent- ative Ray Smit (R - Ann Arbor> and others contend may result in increased pollution of Lake Erie. Under a regional plan designed to facilitate sewage treatment for the south eastern corner of the state, local sewage treatment plants are to be replaced by one large sewage treatment plant at the mouth of the Huron River on Lake Erie. Untreated sewage from various local- ities will be funneled to the Lake Erie plant via a large "intercepter sewer" pipeline that will collect sewage from various townships along the line. The lines will be temporarily connect- ed with the sewage treatment plant at Wyandotte which only provides primary treatment for sewage. This treatment is the least effective treatment against pollution of the river in which the sew- age is dumped. According to George Bingham of the Wayne County Road Commission, which is involved in regional sewage treatment plans, the Wyandotte plant will be con- verted to standards nearly equivalent to Ann Arbor's secondary treatment plant by November, 1971, when Ann Arbor sewage is expected to begin being processed at the plant. An entirely new plant to serve the entire region which will provide second- ary sewage treament will be constructed on Lake Erie within about five years, aded Bingham. Opponents to the regional plant con- tend that individual localities along the Huron River can do a more thorough job of treating the sewage that will flow into the already dangerously polluted Lake Erie than the proposed larger plant could do, At the urging of Rep. Smit, the State Water Resources Commission agreed last week to restudy its previous recom- mendation which asked that Ann Arbor not be allowed to expand its facilities to the highest treatment level. Eng. Prof. Jonathan Bulkley, has pointed out that Ann Arbor's secondary treatment plant removes over 95 per cent of organic and microbiotic wastes. However, he contended, the relocation of the treatment to a regional plant would provide inferior treatment of those wastes without significantly low- ering,the present level of phosphate and nitrate pollution from the Huron River to Lake Erie. Guy ,Larcum, Jr. city administrator, said last night that plans are currently under way to increase the quality of the Ann Arbor Sewage Plant to the highest sewage treatment standard. This treatment level would effectively remove 80 per cent or more of the phosphates and nitrates from the Ann Arbor water which have contributed to the pollution of Lake Erie. The proposed regional plant, which would necessitate the closing of Ann Arbor's plant, is also designed to 'deal with the removal of phosphates and nitrates but will provide only secondary treatment, a level inferior to Ann Ar- bor's new planned standards. Ann Arbor must choose between ex- panding its facilities or accepting the plan for a regional plant within the next month, said Bingham. If the city does not comply with the regional plan. which was approved by the State De- partment of Natural Resources, accord- ing to Bingham, it will not be eligible for federal grants for its sewage treat- ment facilities. -Associated Press Getting the nitty-gritty Author and part-time golf pro Frank Beard experienced a common woe in yesterday's second round of the U.S. Open in Chaska, Minn. ye olde sande trappe. Bogeys still ruled the day, and the -cutoff point for the final two rounds was 153. Jacklin s o CHASKA. Minn. P- Tony Jack: grimly clung to the lead in yesterda: golf championship while stormy Da a course he said he'd "like to plow ui Jacklin, the 25-year-old English wind-blown first round with a 71, under par on the rolling, 7,151-yan course, a layout that took a lamba 'A monkey is as good as a mi 33-year-old Hill said after ripping o second place, just three strokes off ti "I'm playing good enough to w total of about 212 months of susp ments, "but I wouldn't particularly He said the course, a creatior Trent Jones, was "designed by a m down. Scores generaly were greatly im -Randy Wolff, a tour sophomore, 1 but some of the giants of the game Arnold Palmer had a 74 for a 1 South African Gary Player, who ir Masters champion Billy Casper took Wolff, a 25-year-old Texan, wa Crawford, another touring pro seek lefty Bob Charles, with a 71, and v followed at 147. The big group at 148 included F Boros and Don Crenshaw, an 18- Jacklin, who created a sensatic he became the first Englishman to started poorly with bogeys on the back with a string of three birdies st He rifled an iron to within ei rammed home the putt. On ten, h feet to set up another birdie, and seven feet on the par five to climax The personable young man, a on the demanding U.S. pro tour foi to stretch his lead to three strokes most prestigious of all American gol Although he hit the rough wi strong kick on a weak approach sl up his final birdie. Monte ssori plan: A change in education?0 NEW YORK til) In a decade, the Montessori method of teaching three to six-year-olds has spread from coast to coast and many educators believe it has provided the thrust that will bring major changes in the public schools. The Montessori method is designed to use a child's self- motivation and his ability to develop his own capabilities. Dr. Glen P. Nimnicht, program director for education beginning at age three at the Far West Laboratory for Edu- cational Rt'seairch and Development in Berkeley, Calif., said the Montessori method and related research "are bringing change. It's got to come." The American Montessori Society (AMS) yesterday ended a week-long conference in observance of its 10th anniversary and the centennial year of the movement's namesake, Dr. Maria Montessori, who became interested in education as a doctor' treating retarded children in Italy. Dr. Montessori developed what shi called the prepared environment to give a child an opportunity to learn and like it. She wrote: "Never let a child risk failure, until he has a rea- sonable chance of success." Speaking of the growth of the Montessori Americanmove- ment, Nancy McCormick Rambusch, founder and first presi- dent of the AMS, said "It's done beautifully." The five-day conference attracted about 1,000 educators and many experts in the field of early education. Cleo H. Monson, executive secretary of the AMS, said the Montessori system has grown from one school started by Mrs. Rambusch near Greenwich, Conn., in 1960 to 750 schools and programs. The Montessori schools all are private and James Ruffing, chairman of the board of the AMS, said that "rising costs have priced many people out of the market." He said that on the average it costs $60b a year for the half-day sessions, five days a week, MUSIC LOVERS CHOICE! , : _ .. , Y 1 ~ rv t f v' ,p Sony Model 125 Solid-State Easy-Matic Stereo Cassette-Corder Deck TEACHERS WANTED SOUTHWEST, ENTIRE WEST AND ALASKA Southwest Teachers Agency 1303 Central Ave., N.E. Albuquerque, N.M. 87106 Free Registration Rent your Roommate with a Classified Ad HI-Fl BUYS Ann Arbor-East Lonsin 618 S. Main 769-4700 "Quality Sound Through Cuality Equipment" E III1= nyui- -Associated Press DAVID HILLIARD, chief of staff of the Black Panther Party (at right behind microphones) calls for a new U.S. constitution to guarantee all Americans the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which the Panthers say blacks have been denied. Panthers hit Constitution Get the In to WASHINGTON (P)-From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial yesterday the Black Panther party called for a new U.S. Constitution to guarantee to blacks the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Standing where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream". speech in 1963, Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard said the Constitution has proved to be an empty promise for blacks. The party's chief spokesman, who identifies himself as Big Man, said a "Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention" is set tentatively for Labor Day in Philadelphia, "the same place the pigs had theirs." Panthers wearing azure arm- bands roped off the steps of the memorial and unfurled bright blue banners in front of the marble columns. Police routed traffic away from the circle around the memorial. and remained unobtrusively in the background. Panther marshals di- rected tourists around the well- behaved rally crowd of about 500, mostly black but including a sub- stantial minority of white sup- porters. Hilliard said other groups-in- cluding oppresed minorities, the young and the elderly and woien ---have as much need of a new constitution as blacks. But, he said unless whites cease "genocide and repression" against blacks, "then we, black people, will be forced to respond with a form of war of salvation . . . that will gut this country and utterly de- stroy it.", ManyPanthers point to Bobby Seale, founder and chaim man of the Black Panther Party as evi- dence of white repression of radi- cal blacks. Seale was one of the riginal defendants in the Chicago con- spiracy trial until separated for disrupting the courtroom. Federal Judge -Julius Hoffman declared a mistrial in Seale's case and sen- tenced him to four years for -con- tempt. He was recently extradited he faces charges for the kidnap- California to Connecticut, where ing and murder of another Pan- ther. Hilliard said the Lincoln Me- morial was chosen because of Lin- coln's issuance of the Emancipa- tion Proclamation in 1863. "And yet, 107 years later-today-black people are still not free," he said. Constitutionally g u a r a n t e e d rights that have been denied blacks include freedom of assem- bly, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, he said. "Where is freedom when the right to peacefully assemble brings on massacres?" he said. "Where is our right to keep and bear arms when black people are attacked by the racist Gestapo of America?" Swim ONE BEDROOM, AIR CONDITIOIAATE T University Towers 536 S. Forest 761-2680 4 -Associated.Press Police stage demonstration Off-duty police officers in New Orleans protest a judge's order which forbids the arrest of persons selling an underground newspaper in the city. -Bobby Sea